On the run!

School has begun!  Grumble Grumble.  This week has proven even more difficult to get my workouts in although I should have expected it to be that way. After all it has been the same for the past 8 years.  My kids this year are of course adorable and also have the attention span of a fly.  Yesterday when I came home from school I decided that I hated everybody and everything.  I didn't like the food my husband cooked, or that there were no good books to settle down with, and that my legs felt like an 80 year olds.  Get the picture.  I decided to go to bed early so I got in bed at 9:30, but I grumbled until almost 11:30.  I was thinking to myself- I should have gone to work out and then I would probably have some happy endorphins and I wouldn't have been wasting my time laying there not sleeping with all the junk on my mind in my funk.
However, today was another story.  The kids were wonderful, we are starting to get into the swing of things.  I hope it lasts the rest of the year.  I am getting stressed out about the littlest things- for example we have a meeting tomorrow, which we have every Thursday, but we will have guests watching me run the meeting which makes me nervous.  While I was running tonight I heard the song by third day - that quotes "I lift mine eyes up to the hills where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord the maker of heaven and earth. I will praise you in this storm." This might be a storm in my life, but the Lord created me and this world and compared to some people this storm is really just a slight wind of change blowing.
Tonight I ran my 30 minute run- 2.5 miles- 6 minute runs 1 minute walks with a 5 minute warm up.  I was supposed to swim too, but I got out of the house late procrastinating that I was too tired.  I am on the run with the school year and I hope that my training still continues to run its course.  Tomorrow Jimmy and I are going bike riding and then I am going to follow it with a run for a brick.  I ran and swam last Friday, but that meant it had been 4 days.  It is hard to get back on track even from that little of time.
One thing that really inspired me also to go work out tonight was that my husband was looking back on pictures from our summer trip to Cozumel that we took in late June.  He said, "Man you have lost weight." I know that I haven't really lost any weight, but he said that my face has really slimmed down.  He doesn't give out compliments very often, so I know he wasn't just being nice.  It made me feel good and want to keep going with the triathlon training.  Why should the triathlon be horrible just because I am stressed and that makes it seem like everything else is going wrong. I think I definitely let my imagination go wild in my grumbling.  Please let the happy endorphins flow. Let my love for my students and teaching, and my daughter and my husband and family flow freely also and so I don't let my bad moods get the best of me.  I also know that I have many run-on sentences in this and that my words sounds strange and that grammar is incorrect, but I am tired and I am having to think like a kindergarten so the fact that I can write anything at all is pretty good. Good night and God Bless!